feast
any rich or abundant meal: The steak dinner was a feast.
a sumptuous entertainment or meal for many guests: a wedding feast.
something highly agreeable: The Rembrandt exhibition was a feast for the eyes.
a periodical celebration or time of celebration, usually of a religious nature, commemorating an event, person, etc.: Every year, in September, the townspeople have a feast in honor of their patron saint.
to have or partake of a feast; eat sumptuously.
to dwell with gratification or delight, as on a picture or view.
to provide or entertain with a feast.
Idioms about feast
feast one's eyes, to gaze with great joy, admiration, or relish: to feast one's eyes on the Grand Canyon.
Origin of feast
1synonym study For feast
Other words from feast
- feaster, noun
- feastless, adjective
- outfeast, verb (used with object)
- o·ver·feast, verb
- pre·feast, noun
- un·feast·ed, adjective
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How to use feast in a sentence
In deep water, where relatively few animals live, the feast may last for years.
Whales get a second life as deep-sea buffets | Stephen Ornes | October 15, 2020 | Science News For StudentsOne day, she wins the lottery, and instead of using the money to finally go back home, she uses it to prepare a lavish feast in honor of the sect’s founder.
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Eager as ad buyers were for major sports like the NBA and NFL to return to TV, many were anxious about how the volume of sports on TV going from famine to feast would affect viewership.
‘Significant under-delivery’: TV advertisers grapple with glut of live sports affecting viewership | Tim Peterson | September 24, 2020 | Digiday
It was known as the feast of Akitu, and it was celebrated in April.
The mythic origin of the feast was the creation of the world by the god Marduk.
Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.
feast your eyes on the ‘top-grain leather,’ ‘original’ design, gilded pages.
Then feast your ears on this 1969 Bill Cosby routine about drugging and seducing women.
In both cases the decision was made at a feast, and in favour of the one who “loved much.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayThey were just about to celebrate tabagie, or a solemn feast, over his last farewell.
In the spring of 1880 she went again to Paris, only to "feast on things artistic."
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementDeath comes in, the bread at the feast turns black, the hound falls down—and so on.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodBut strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton Wade
British Dictionary definitions for feast
/ (fiːst) /
a large and sumptuous meal, usually given as an entertainment for several people
a periodic religious celebration
something extremely pleasing or sumptuous: a feast for the eyes
movable feast a festival or other event of variable date
(intr)
to eat a feast
(usually foll by on) to enjoy the eating (of), as if feasting: to feast on cakes
(tr) to give a feast to
(intr foll by on) to take great delight (in): to feast on beautiful paintings
(tr) to regale or delight: to feast one's mind or one's eyes
Origin of feast
1Derived forms of feast
- feaster, noun
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